From Pong to Fortnite an Introduction
You can call me GHG, Crono or Ron. I sure do have grey in my hair. Let me see now, my first video gaming memory? It might have been seeing PONG at some restaurant-bar with my parents. Or it might have been seeing Atari's Outlaw or Midway's Sea Wolf at the skating rink. In the home it was most certainly seeing Atari PONG or one of the Coleco Telstar PONG clones at other kids houses. I'd often split from my parents when they went shopping and headed to the game demo station. I played arcade games a little. The usual suspects, Asteroids, Defender, Gauntlet. I've played some of the rarer games too, like the arcade version of Space War and Thayer's Quest. My first "TV game box"? A used Atari 2600 bought for 10 bucks in 1986 (before the NES got nationwide release), my parents didn't have the financial resources to buy me vidja games themselves. I was techy, so my parents didn't help me hook it up. It came with a LOT of games. It was a